string.replace() - string

             
The method replace() returns a copy of the string in which the occurrences of old have been replaced with new, optionally restricting the number of replacements to max.


old -- This is old substring to be replaced.
new -- This is new substring, which would replace old substring.
max -- If this optional argument max is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

Syntax

str.replace(old, new[, max])

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "this is string example....wow!!! this is really string";
print str.replace("is", "was")
print str.replace("is", "was", 3)

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas was really string
thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas is really string

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